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Once again, Maria Famà makes us smile as she cajoles us with profound folk wisdom and ironic wit. This is a book everyone of any background can delight in. The witty folk wisdom it offers can be cherished for a lifetime. --Daniela Gioseffi, American Book Award winner The Good for the Good weaves wit and warmth into poems inspired by Italian and Sicilian sayings embraced by her family through generations. --Amy Barone, Author of We Became Summer These poems create a rich tapestry of folk wisdom, linguistic hybridism, and inter-generational transfer across two sides of an ocean. . . . Famà's reflections on the legacies of her Sicilian heritage are as timeless as the sayings that inspired her work. --Lina Insana, Associate Professor at University of Pittsburgh

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Maria Famà is the author of seven books of poetry. Her work appears in numerous publications and anthologies. In 2018, she was the Second Prize Winner in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards. Of Sicilian descent, Famà has read her poetry in many cities across the United States and recorded her poems for CD compilations of music and poetry. She appears reading her poetry in the films Prisoners Among Us, Pipes of Peace, and La Mia Strada. Her most recent books are THE GOOD FOR THE GOOD (Bordighera Press, 2019), Other Nations: an animal journal, published in 2017 by Pearlsong Press and MYSTICS IN THE FAMILY (Bordighera Press, 2013).

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